Left Bracket.
Opening Bracket
Square Bracket
Left Square Bracket
This is a left bracket. Not to be confused with the left parenthesis or left curly brace.
In the ASCII table, the left bracket is 91. (That's 5B for those of you that speak in hex)
In Everything, the left bracket is used to signify the start of a link in a writeup.
In chat areas, the left bracket is used as a "hat" or simply to shape the head of the smiley face, such as: [:-)
In Earthsiege by Sierra OnLine, the left bracket was used to redistribute power from the front shields to the back shields of the MERC (useful when running away).
In C/C++ the left bracket can be used to signal that a variable is an array name, the index of which immediately follows the bracket.
In mathematics, used usually in conjuction with parentheses to group mathematical expressions, as in:
[ 3 + 4 * (5 + 6)] / 7
Also used around groups or arrays of numbers to indicate a matrix.
A left bracket on a set indicates that the set is closed on the lower bounds, meaning that the lower value is included in the set.
To use a left bracket without making a link in everything, type [
Another save by The Nodeshell Rescue Team